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  • ’Comply or be crucified’ the Romans declared
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To have spent a life largely in service, duty and sacrifice because you truly, honestly, believed and valued in the highest esteem the truths of Truth, Justice and Liberty, fervently held dear the rallying battlecries of Democracy and Freedom, only to one day reach a sudden epiphany of realization, in a renching horrible instant ... to understand that those beliefs had become mere hollow words, tools and lies to be mouthed by a political system long corrupted to the core for something (…)

  • Editorial: ‘Stay the course’ bromides
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush on President Clinton not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo
    “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” George W. Bush, 4/9/99:
    “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.” George W. Bush, 6/5/99 Speaking to a captive audience of soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 28, President George W. Bush resorted once (…)

  • MSNBC ’expert’ and US puppet Iraqi Prime Minister are lying to US: The Iraqi People want US to leave
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While Americans were President Bush’s primary target audience for his nationally televised address to the nation on Tuesday, Iraqis were also very interested in what he had to say.
    Walid Phares, a terrorism expert for MSNBC and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, joined MSNBC’s Amy Robach on Wednesday to discuss how Bush’s words may be playing in Baghdad, Basra and all around Iraq.
    "Days ago I had met with the (Iraqi) prime minister at a meeting here in (…)

  • Tony Blair just as bad as Bush: Denies facts in Downing Street Memo-continues to link 9/11 to Iraq
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blair denies US rushed to war
    INTERVIEW: The British prime minister said ensuring victory in Iraq is more important than debating the case for invasion, especially when memos are taken out of context
    British Prime Minister Tony Blair firmly denied that the Bush administration signaled just months after Sept. 11 that a decision was made to invade Iraq, saying he was "astonished" by claims that leaked secret memos suggested the US was rushing to war.
    In an interview a day after US (…)

  • Tony Blair Confirms Authenticity of Downing Street Memo-51 Congressmembers File FOIA Request
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SAN STEFFAN / WESTMINSTER DATGANIAD I’R WASG PLAID CYMRU THE PARTY OF WALES PRESS RELEASE Wednesday 29 June 2005 - for immediate release
    The Prime Minister has confirmed the authenticity of a Downing Street memo in which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, tells Mr Blair that the Bush administration was "fixing" the intelligence and facts about Saddam Hussein’s regime to back up a decision that had been taken to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
    The Downing Street memo which (…)

  • Dangerous Incompetence
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The president who displayed his contempt for Iraqi militants two years ago with the taunt "bring ’em on" had to go on television Tuesday night to urge Americans not to abandon support for the war that he foolishly started but can’t figure out how to win. Skip to next paragraph
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    The Bush crowd bristles at the use of the "Q-word" - quagmire - to describe American involvement in Iraq. But with our soldiers fighting and (…)

  • The Nation Weeps as the President Lies
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Nation Weeps as the President Lies; a detailed annotated review of each of the flood of lies Bush told
    By Anthony Wade
    George W. Bush knows no shame. Having presided over the deaths of 1,700-7,000 American kids, for lies he propagated, President Bush used tonight’s message to extend his lies, and launch new, brazen mistruths. George Bush proved one thing tonight. He cares not what the American people think, and he further thinks they are too stupid to realize when they are being (…)

  • Bush’s ’Vietnamization’ Speech
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by no draft no way
    1) Response to Bush June 28 War Speech Bush on Iraq & Nixon on Vietnam Ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent Freedom in the Middle East? Who pays the price for global war?
    2) September 24
    3) Help Stop Military Recruiting and Fight the Draft George W. Bush Defends War, Torture, and Repression
    (June 28) Faced with growing resistance in Iraq and growing worldwide opposition, George W. Bush tonight attempted to rally support (…)

  • Bush says "Stay the course." The People say "Troops Out Now!"
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now, more than ever, it is vital that the antiwar movement be in the streets. The Troops Out Now Coalition is joining with the September 24 National Coalition, which includes the National Council of Arab-Americans (NCA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, the Haiti Support Network, the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, and the National Lawyers Guild, in order to help build a unified demonstration against the war.
    In his (…)

  • Calls For Impeachment "I, too, feel that George Bush does not represent me and the Republican Party"
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Stoughton, Bush impeachment urged
    Carol McKy of Middleton was the only self-proclaimed Republican in a room of more than 50 Wednesday evening who passed a motion urging Congress to begin the impeachment process for President George W. Bush.
    "I, too, feel that George Bush does not represent me and the Republican Party," McKy said Wednesday at a meeting at Stoughton’s Public Safety Building held by the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace.
    Others predicted that Republicans would soon (…)